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By Kelly McLendon

WAUSEON - When Ful­ton County res­i­dent Kris­ten Runyon and her 15-year-old daugh­ter Gracie Runyon re­turned from Ukraine this sum­mer, they had a story to tell.

Trav­el­ing with friends on a mis­sion trip that they or­ga­nized as a
col­lec­tive, us­ing their own money, the group vis­ited or­phan­ages
and nurs­ing homes near Odessa.

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